Her Favorite Flower Vase

During the morning hours after prayers, Stella the mother of four children, and grandmother to three. Would always go to the backyard to check on her old broken vase that is around a cacti flower that have over grown the vase. She always check if any piece of the vase have crack out so her can tie it back or glue it back.
Every time Chichi, Ikechi, Chisom visit their granny with parents they will always while grandma go to the backyard every morning to check the vase, but the get no satisfied answer to there question. The keep asking their parents and grandma, on till one blessed xmas holiday their grandma told them a story about the vase.
That the vase belong her Husband. That was the last thing he bought before going to war.
And before leaving the compound that very day, we stoop at the very spot the vase is, with the little cacti flower struggling to live and we discuss, on how I will manage and survive without him and during the discussion he was touching and amending the soil in the vase. Remove little weed that grew along with the flower.
She stop telling the story. With on tears on her eyes.
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